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What a great year for classic British jets in FSX ! First we got the Canberra PR.9 and soon this beast:
 

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Always thought the EE Lightning was an amazing looking aircraft. It just seems to have this built in "Ya wanna piece of me? Well, come and get it, Sunshine!" look to it...

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That is looking nice, some reason this aircraft has always been wired to my brain case from the first time I saw one ... nah not real but in an aircraft book from the mid 1960s when I was in primary school, Its the theme off another drawing I'm working on.:cool:

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Dave didn't show it in his VC pics but the rubber radar hood can be unfolded to reveal the working radar scope.
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Many years ago a father and his son were watching one of these at an air show as the pilot did a climbing turn away from the crowd and the view up both jet pipes was of balls of fire. Father to son: You'd go as fast as that if your backside was as hot!
 
I was in the RAF back in the mid-70's and was working in the Comms Section whilst stationed at RAF Wattisham. We had 29 (?) and 111 Sqdn's resident there at that time if memory serves. Anyway, one Saturday, a lone Lightning came over from another station - can't remember which one but probably Binbrook - and this guy put his Lightning through a practice run air display prior to going off somewhere to do it 'live'. I'd been given the heads-up by the guys upstairs in the control tower so nipped outside and watched as the pilot put on a 'private' show. What an unbelievable display; he went so hard on this display that during one part of it, he beat up the runway, pulled back on the stick and went straight up. In a matter of seconds he'd shrunk to a tiny dot somewhere up in the blue - but not after the effect of the manouevre had cracked one of the big windows in the control tower. One word: awesome :applause:
 
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What an unbelievable display; he went so hard on this display that during one part of it, he beat up the runway, pulled back on the stick and went straight up.
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I've seen them doing that when I was a kid and used to go and watch them at Binbrook... something you never forget.... very impressive.

Dave... That Blue badge on that 11Sq F3.... is that something to do with a visit from a Luftwaffe F4 squadron or something like that. I arrived up at my favourite spot at Binbrook one afternoon only to find there would be nothing flying for a while because a visiting German Phantom had ploughed the runway when its undercarriage failed at the last moment...just wondered if that visitor had anything to do with the unusual adornment.

I know 56 and 111 where at Wattisham in the Brightly coloured phase. I assume 11 and 5 where at Binbrook (as they where in my plane spotting days)... where was 74 based out of interest in the mid 60s?

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Leuchars, I believe
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Yep. Leuchars until 1966, then moved to Tengah, finally disbanding at Akro.

Like Kevin I have fond memories of seeing that takeoff, in my case at a number of airshows in the late sixties and early seventies; echoing Matt's comment, utterly magical & totally unforgettable.

Glad that I finally have a PC that can run FSX, as this looks like a must have.
 
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